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Beyond Bitcoin Expert Calling Network

Brock Pierce, a mega-player in the Bitcoin movement, joined the Beyond Bitcoin Expert Calling Network (BBECN) today, adding the experience and power of a 15X Entrepreneur and investor in over two dozen Bitcoin companies to the impressive mix of experts available on the web-based call-in platform.

Brock Pierce is best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Crypto Currency Partners (CCP). CCP has invested in 28 crypto focused financings this year. Pierce is also an advisor, mentor, and board member of some of the most dynamic companies in the Bitcoin space, including GoCoin, Expresscoin, Noble Markets, Blade Financial, ZenBox, Tether, BitGo, Coin Congress, KnCMiner.cn, and Robocoin Asia.

He is a sought-after commentator on the Bitcoin economy and sits on the Board of the Bitcoin Foundation. Pierce is a prolific angel investor, city leader of BitAngels Los Angeles and runs an AngelList top 10 syndicates. Pierce has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions throughout his career. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies like Bitcoin, gaming, payments, and ad tech.

He is likewise the author of IMI Exchange, the universes driving computerized cash commercial center for amusements with deals surpassing US$1 billion every year, which raised over $100 Million from blue chip financial specialists, for example, Goldman Sachs and Oak Investment Partners; ZAM, one of the world’s biggest media properties for gamers with more than 15 million month to month clients which was sold in January 2012 to Tencent; Ige, the organization credited with spearheading the market for advanced money in web based recreations, which produced $100 million in income in 2006 and was sold in mid 2007. Puncture likewise drove the procurement of Xfire from Viacom.

Pierce is an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been a guest lecturer at Singularity University, Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

Pierce joins public affairs expert and champion of the underbanked, Sarah Martin of BooneMartin, in a new wave of experts recently signed onto the BBECN. Other key BBECN experts include Rik Willard, pioneer in using digital currencies for marketing and loyalty; Juan Llanos, one of America’s foremost Anti-Money Laundering experts; Joe Lubin, COO of Ethereum – a Bitcoin 2.0 applications that recently raised nearly $15 million; Tatiana Moroz, developer of the world’s first digital currency for artists; and Adam Levine, a pioneer in user-created digital assets.

Willard, CEO of MintCombine which sponsors the BBECN notes that experts reach out to be on the busy platform “at the rate of about eight to ten per day”, and that while the BBECN appreciates all entrepreneurs in the space, it “is vetting experts very seriously and those who make the cut almost always have some success in more traditional businesses before moving into Bitcoin or other currencies. The surest way to truly help people understand the power of these assets is to have made them part of a business that you already know”.